TOMAS SCHUMAN
BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL
COMMUNISM IS NOT
if you think that I am crazy, please ask
Mexicans. Have you ever heard of any
smart Mexican sneaking across the bord-
er into Cuba, Nicaragua, or the USSR?
Boat people never swim to Red China for
equality and justice. Black African broth-
ers are not running from South Africa.
They run from Zimbabwe, Angola and
Mozambique TO South Africa.
MEDIA
DISINFORMATION
The following excerpts are from a talk on
DISINFORMATION IN THE LIBERAL
MEDIA , given March 26 at a CA USA USA
Regional Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
The speaker, Mr. Tomas Schuman (Yuri
Bezmenov), was formerly a correspondent
for the Soviet Novosti Press Agency,
specializing in producing disinformation
for the foreign media. A defector, Mr.
Schuman now works as a political analyst
and public speaker on disinformation and
other activities of the Soviet KGB .
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My dear American capitalists, and op-
pressed masses, I would like to start my
talk with three magic words, which usual-
ly give three years of imprisonment to any
citizen of any socialist country if they pro-
nounce these three magic words loudly
and continously:" I love America!* Apart
from loving America, I also love CAUSA,
if only for one reason, that they can collect
so many interesting people in one room,
including hispanics and blacks.
I'm very happy to see many black
Americans in this room, because my mes-
sage concerns you, greatly. I believe that
black is beautiftil, but unlike some of your
liberals, I practice what 1 preach. I live in a
black area of Los Angeles, in the city
which has the best black mayor in the
United States, Tom Bradley. I am married
to a girl who is rather black, maybe not as
black as Andrew Young or Jesse Jackson,
but nobody's perfect. And I am trying to
bring such beautiful concepts as equality,
justice, and freedom into practical im-
plementation. And believe me, I am not
telling these things to you people just to
please you. I am not running for political
office. I don't want anything from you
people. I am not selling anything, I don't
want any money. Fm simply telling you
what I feel.
The rest of my message may not be as
pleasant. I'm going to tell you something
that is extremely unpleasant to hear. My
impression and my knowledge, based on
my experience on the Soviet side, is that
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much of the American mass media is being
manipulated by the Soviet KGB. That was
my job for about 12 years. There is a
strange, nagging negativism in the Amer-
ican mass media in relation to America.
The monopolized media in the United
States tends to blame everything on the
United States — earthquakes arranged by
the CIA, acid rains come from American
capitalism, oppression, discrimination,
racism, come from America. I'm not
puting that there are some bigots in the
United States: bigots are everywhere, and
through the history of mankind there were
people who were pathologically unable to
be friendly to blacks, yellows, or any race.
I'm talking about governmental, state
racism. This is something that never ex-
isted in the United States in observable
history. America is not racist. Socialism
is. And I'm going to demonstrate to you
how and which way
was on radio talk show, some caller said,
4 'Mr. Schuman, we don't want to discuss
differences between capitalism and social-
ism. We want to discuss the injustices
which exist in both camps." Obviously,
he doesn't know what real injustice
means.
Before I go into specifics about the mass
media, why the media is so masochistic
about the United States, why they lie to
you — and I'm going to prove how they lie
to you — I'm going to show you several
pictures which will give you a glimpse into
my life and my activity as a Soviet prod-
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uct, as a Soviet disinformation agent, and
me I was not a spy.
When you watch your Hollywood mov-
ies about James Bond espionage, please
believe me, most of it is pure garbage. The
Soviet KGB do not need any James Bonds
today; YOU GIVE THEM THE SEC-
RETS , or SELL THEM THE SECRETS . I
was engaged in something much more un-
pleasant than espiQnage. I was engaged in
ideological subversion, which is seldom
explained to people by your media, be-
cause the media is part of that process.
Let me show you part of my life story
and activity. This is the town in the sub-
urbs of Moscow where I was born. You
can see Comrade Lenin's statue in the mid-*
die of the central square, on the right. This
is a typical decoration in any Soviet city.
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Comrade Lenin is described in your mass
media as a great politician, and great revo-
lutionary. He is the idol of many of your
intellectuals and freedom fighters and civil
rights movements. The United Nations
recently celebrated the anniversary of
Comrade Lenin's birthday. And your gov-
ernment sent congratulational telegrams to
my government.
Now please try to understand that in the
eyes of people who walk by Comrade
Lenin's statue, he was a short, bald man
with a speech impediment who died from
syphillis, and who introduced the system
of mass terror and concentration camps in
my country long before these beautiful
ideas came to the mind of Adolf Hitler.
Nazis killed 6 million Jews. The system
established by Lenin killed 66 million of
my people. Do you see the difference? Or
similarity? You don't have time to count
how many people were killed by the sys-
tem which is glorified in your mass media.
This is another great politician, the sta-
tue of Comrade Stalin, and myself at the
age of 6 or 7. When I realized that the mass
media lied to both my people and your
people when they describe Uncle Joe as a
peacemaker. President Roosevelt called
him a nice, charming Uncle Joe. The New
York Times described him as a great
humanist at the time when he was killing
millions of my people.
At the age of 6, as you can see, I realized
perfectly well that the United States is not
my enemy . You have to be an exceptional-
ly dumb child at the age of 6 to believe that
such delicious food as Spam meat was
supplied to us by the enemy. When Soviet
propaganda tried to convince me that
United States is just about to invade us,
believe me, kids in my school and
thousands of other schools were counting
the days and minutes — When is Gen. Pat-
ton to invade our country?! We wanted to
be invaded. We wanted to own blue jeans,
jazz records with Glenn Miller music,
more chocolate bars, more condensed
milk, more Spam meat. We did not want
Uncle Joe. Yet your presidents, multi-
nationals, and religious groups imposed
Uncle Joe on us to continue the slavery in
my country. With your silent consent.
This is my father on the right, inspector
of land forces of the Soviet Army General
Staff. He inspected Soviet troops stationed
in such countries as China, Mongolia,
Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and East
Germany, where one of your officers was
killed last morning. My father died in
1973, but believe me, his comrades are
doing the same job right now, inspecting
Soviet troops in such countries as Nicar-
agua, El Salvador, Yemen, Mozambique,
Syria, and Iraq. You want more? There are
more. Zimbabwe, Angola, Ethiopia, Viet-
nam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan. You
want more? Well, keep on sitting on your
fat bottoms. There will be more countries
like that.
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Your media, your beautiful in-
tellectuals, your think tanks, which 1 call
stink tanks, all these countries they de-
scribe as Third World countries, non-
aligned countries, and neutral countries
Some idiots come forward with such
names as liberated, anti-colonial countr-
ies. Sensible people in my country, the
Russians as you call us, we have different
names for these countries. We call them
betrayed countries, betrayed by your gov-
ernment, by your multinationals, by the
dim wits of your establishment, in-
tellectuals, some of your freedom and
whatever fighters. And there will be more
countries like that until you understand the
difference between freedom and slavery, j
This is the college from which I gradu-
ated: Institute of Oriental Languages, a
small, elitist school for children of high-
ranking officials of the USSR. I studied
the languages of India, Pakistan, Hindi
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and Urdu. I also studied history, economy,
political science, communications, mass
media, anything that would enable me to
be an effective Soviet bureaucrat in India.
I also studied the music of India, as you
can see. I even tried to look like an Indian
when I was a second year student, and I
was encouraged to do so because we were
preparing to be foreign correspondents,
diplomats or spies.
As every other Soviet student, I had to
volunteer to harvest grain in Soviet col-
lective farms. Strictly according to
Marxist-Leninist slogans, those who do
not work shall not eat. You can see me
eating; therefore, I was working. This is
the area where Soviet students spend their
vacation; it is marked by the yellow color;
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it is called Kazakhstan. The picture is
taken from an American news magazine,
US News & World Report. I demonstrate
it to you as an example of the monumental
ignorance of your mass media. They call
this area Russia's breadbasket. I hope you
people realize that Russia's breadbasket is
not Kazakhstan; it is Kansas, Texas, Ala-
bama, Mississippi, Ohio.
This is my first assignment as a transla-
tor with a Soviet economic aid group
building oil refineries. At the time I real-
ized that what we were doing in India has
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nothing to do with friendship, coopera-
tion, detente, peace What we were doing
was building a carbon-copy of the Soviet
socialist system in India, peacefully, with-
out tanks. I hated socialism back home,
My country sent me to India. My country,
good or bad, I love my country, and 1 still
do even though I despise the system. I tried
to be friendly to Indians. I was trying to be
friendly to little Indians like this boy. I was
trying to be friendly to not-so-little Indians
like this girl. If you remember, Karl Marx
said, 'Proletarians of all the countries, un-
ite.* To be a good Marxist, I wanted to
unite with a nice proletarian girl, I was
always crazy about Oriental girls for a very
simple reason: apart from being a "racist" I
spent my childhood in the oriental part of
USSR, in Kazakhstan. My father was
fighting on the front lines, my mother was
working in the factories. My adopted
mother was an Oriental girl with dark skin
and slanted eyes. That was the first lady
that showed me some respect, love and
tenderness, changed my diapers and wiped
my nose. As every normal child, I remem-
ber her face for the rest of my life. I did not
want to marry a fat, white Russian girl. I
wanted to marry a slender, dark Indian
girl.
I wish I could explain it to your freedom
fighters in the United States, who blame
America for being racist. It is my country,
under Soviet socialism, which is the most
racist system in the world. By law in
USSR, I was not allowed to marry a for-
eign girl, and — Marx forbid! — to make
love to her because the Communist Party
has control on my genes and chromo-
somes. I was not allowed to marry into an
'inferior race , and this is something that I
have desperately tried to explain to your
civil rights activists who blame America.
They show you these pictures, taken
from Time magazine. A black South Afri-
can showing his passport. 4 'Worldwide
outcry against racism/' Yes, it is a shame
to deny certain parts of a population — the
majority of blacks in South Africa — their
political rights. I am not debating that.
Yes, it is a shame to have a passport, an
internal document, which is unheard of in
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the United States, with a picture, descrip-
tion of nationality or racial origin, and a
police rubber stamp, which prescribes for
this man where he is supposed to live. His
place of residence, right?
Now, why don't you look at this
passport — it is my passport, a Soviet pass-
port. There is my picture. There is a police
rubber stamp which prescribes where I
have to reside, and there is my indication
of racial origin on the right bottom line; it
says Ruski, Russian. I was lucky to be
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Russian. But if I were born a Jew in a
God-forsaken village, I had no right to
move from one city to another. Now there
are demonstrations in front of the South
African Embassy because 30 blacks were
killed in South Africa. Have you ever
heard about anyone of your liberal es-
tablishment demonstrating in front of the
Soviet embassy, who killed 15 million
Ukranians, 2 million Crimean Tartars, and
thousands of other ethnic minorities in my
country. Where are your Jesse Jacksons?
Why don't they demonstrate in front of the
Soviet embassy? Please explain it to me;
maybe I'm a dumb Russian. Maybe 1 don't
undersand what racism is THIS IS RAC-
ISM!
Coming back to my wife's story the
Communist Party. didn't want me to marry
an Indian girl, so I had to marry this nice
Russian girl in the middle. 1 couldn't stand
her, but that was the desire of my superi-
ors. A Soviet bureaucrat of my caliber is
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nd allowed to marry anyone he wants. My
wife has to go through security clearance.
Without Jove y husband and wife in the
Soviet bureaucracy become virtually in-
formers on each other to prevent defec-
tion. And if you behave like a good boy, if
you marry who they want you to marry,
this is what happens. A status symbol of a
Soviet young bureaucrat, government job,
private car, nice-looking wife who speaks
English — she hates you very much and
reports everything you say to KGB — and a
transistor radio, manufactured in Japan to
listen to Voice of America.
If you behave like a good boy, they
promote you . You can see me on the right
as a press officer of the USSR Embassy
translating a speech by a Soviet boss on the
occasion of the commissioning of this oil
refinery in India. When the job was done, I
was transferred back to Moscow to work
for the Novosti Press Agency. This is
Tomas Schuman (second left) with a group of collaborators, distributors
of Novosti subversive propaganda in India, visiting the Kremlin. A bonus
for good work.
headquarters of Novosti. Novosti means
'news' in Russian. Novosti has nothing to
do with news. Novosti is the KGB-
controlled front for political indoctrina
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and terrorism. Part of my job was to ma-
nipulate and befriend students of Patrice
Lamumba Friendship University. This is a
group of such students visiting the Krem-
lin with me. They don't look like students, /
and they were not. Nor were they spies.
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They were future agents of disinforma-
tion, subversion and terrorism. They were
imported to the USSR from Asia, Africa
and Latin America, trained at Lamumba
Friendship University, then for two years
in KGB school, then dispatched back to
their countries. And after a short period of
time, they become leaders of "national
liberation movements"
And when they destablize their own
country, they start indiscriminately shoot-*
ing and killing their own people. And
when they do that, beautiful journalists of
the United States describe these bandits as
* 4 anti-government guerrillas/ 1 "leftist re-
bels/' right? Some even come forward
with such fancy names as "freedom figh-
ters'*, or "fighters for majority rule."
Now, when Salvadorans want to fight
back against this KGB -trained bandits and
assassins and rapists, when Salvadorans
shoot back, what does The New York
Times call them? 4 'Death squads," 4 4 right-
wing death squads . 4 4 Now, these are left-
wing death squads. You ever heard this
name in your media? Why not? Explain to
me why not. I
This is another type of activity. You can
see me second on the left with my KGB
supervisor, with a group of intellectuals,
" progressive 11 writers, journalists, freedom
fighters, and civil rights movement lead-
ers, visiting the Kremlin in this picture, I
seemingly for one purpose only — to de-
nounce American racism and imperialism
and to glorify Soviet imperialism and rac-
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ism. And of course they are being paid for
this; don't worry. Secretly people like my-
self call them 44 useful idiots". This is a
gathering of such idiots in the headquarters
of Novosti press agency. I am standing
next to one of them, an Indian poet who
wrote a poem entitled 'Springtime Blos-
som for Mankind, Comrade Lenin. 4 You
can imagine how much money we paid to
him.
Pay attention to the number of bottles on
the table. This, my dear friends, is hard
booze. Part of my job was to keep foreign-
ers permanently on a certain level of in-
toxication, not too drunk, not too sober.
Why? Simple. So that everything looks
nice to them in Russia. The moment that
they walk out of the airplane in Moscow,
we take them to the VIP lounge and we
toast with champagne to friendship, un-
derstanding, detente, brotherhood,
Andropov-style. And if they refuse to
drink, we tell them, "It's unethical. You
t may offend feelings of our people, be-
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cause it's a tradition in our country to get
drunk for friendship. ' ' And the poor idiots
start boozing for three, four, five, ten days
continuously. And then next morning we
stop. And if any of you who ever tried this
trip, to drink for five days and then stop,
you know what will happen next morning?
You will be sick with a hangover, even
sicker. You will feel guilty sometimes,
trying to recollect:" What were we talking
about yesterday? With whom did you
spend die night?"
In the United States, this decadent capi-
talist country, it's not a big problem. You
go across the street, you buy a 6-pack of
cold beer and refresh your memory . In my
country, I control these idiots. I take them
to the hotel and there is not a drop of
alcohol miles around And they are dying
for a drink. This is the time, when their
mentality is the mosfflexible" If you don't
believe me, ask your doctor. Alcohol does j
it, drugs do it. This is the time when we get j
them involved in propaganda operations;
not espionage, no, propaganda, black- f
mail.
Your beautiful politicians, journalists,
can do any idiocy such as citing Helsinki
agreements, SALT accords, preferential
trade agreements with the Soviet bandits in
the Kremlin. They can make a speech in
the Kremlin denouncing America and •
glorifying the USSR. They can sing a song I
like Pete Seeger did, or Paul Robeson did,
in the Kremlin. Anything we want, to our
advantage, and to the disadvantage of your
nation. And when they come back to }
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America, your media describes this type of
f people as "soberly thinking politicans".
This is one sober-thinking politician,
Edward Kennedy, dancing with a Russian
bride in a wedding palace. We don't have
church weddings because churches are be-
ing destroyed by the communist party. So
we have official weddings, and Edward
Kennedy is attending one of them. What
he believes is' that, and Time magazine
describes that misunderstanding too, he is
finding common language with the -Rus-
sians. No, he is not. He thinks he is a
beautiful, charismatic politician. No. He
is not. He is a part of a circus. It is a
specially prepared occasion to impress
your politicians . Then they come back to
the United States and say, "Russians are
just like us. They are normal people/'
Yes, we are. We have two hands, one head
and go to bathroom just like you do. We
make love, we make babies.
I may forgive a little monkey, Samantha
Smith, when she goes to Russia on the
invitation of comrade Andropov, comes
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back and says, "Oh, Russians are lovable
people.-' Yes, we are. Samantha Smith
may not notice the difference between the
system's political structure, and I can for-
give her. But I can never forgive a political
prostitute like Edward Kennedy for not
knowing the difference. You can see Ed-
ward Kennedy taking part in a farce, and I
hope you will believe this is a farce. This is
the same type of farce I organized for hun-
PROPAGANDA PHOTO shows phony Russian "bride"
welcoming Indian tourists to "wedding" arranged by
Soviet secret police. At center / gesturing, is Schuman.
dreds of delegates. You can see myself in
the middle, probably the same bride on the
left, and three impressed correspondents
on the right. They will come back home
and they will explain to their people in
Asia, Africa, and Latin America, "Look,
Russians are just like us." Of course we
are like you. Please, try to understand, we
are not talking about people. We are talk-
ing about systems and concepts and moral
principles.
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Another type of activity. You can see
me in the background under the red spot
with a group of journalists visiting an
ordinary kindergarten. The trick is, it is
NOT an ordinary kindergarten. THIS is
the ordinary kindergarten, in the middle.
This picture was published by mistake in
one of the government publications in
Canada. The caption says, "Typical day
care center in Siberia. ' ' My dear friends, it
is typical, but it is not day care center. It is
a prison for the children of political prison-
ers. They don't explain it to you, your
beautiful journalists.
This is Stalingrad, now Volgograd, the
monument to Mother Russia. This pro-
paganda complex is being used to in-
doctrinate soldiers in unquestionable
loyalty to Communist Party. This is my-
self, in the same place, with a group of
American journalists representing Look
Magazine. You can see in the background
the statue to Mother Russia. It is a huge
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monster, ten times bigger than the Statue
of Liberty, an oversized lady with an over-
dose of hormones, brandishing a sword at
you.
This is a copy of Look magazine, and
we'll come back to that issue later if we
have time. After several successful pro-
paganda operations with American jour-
nalists, I was transferred back to India.
Your media lies to you when they describe
India as the biggest democracy in Asia.
India never was the biggest democracy. It
was an autocracy, ruled by the Nehru
families— J awaharlal Nehru, his daughter
Indira Gandhi, and now her son.
Indira Gandhi was not a non-aligned
politician. She was very much aligned with
the Soviet Union. She was in the Soviet
pocket from the moment she stepped into
her office.
When she arrived in United States to
visit you two years ago, she lied to you and
your media repeated these lies. Indira
Gandhi said to your people, "There is no
evidence of Soviet military presence in In-
dia/' My dear friends, it was the biggest
and fattest lie. I was dealing with the
Soviet military in India. Some of them
were building Indian seaports for Soviet
nuclear submarines. Others were prepar-
ing invasion into East Pakistan, which the
dimwits of your media described as a gras-
sroots Islamic revolution. Believe me
please, there was no grass, no root, no
revolution, and least of all Islam. There is
no such thing as an Islamic revolution. ]
Revolution has nothing to do with Islam.
There is no such thing as Islamic ter-
rorists.
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Your media lies to you when they say
j that United States embassy was blown up
by'lslamic terrorists'! They are terrorists,
yes. But they are not Islamic simply be-
cause they were born in an Islamic coun-
\ try. Do you know the difference? I cannot
call Comrade Andropov a Christian dicta-
tor simply because he was born in a coun-
try which was Christian. Islamic people do
not hate America. They love you. They
know where the money comes from, lama
Christian, but I have no reason to hate
Islam, but if you read your own newspa-
pers, you may have an impression that
Islam is an enemy of American Christians.
Baloney. Open up your eyes please.
This is another type of KGB activity. t
You can see on my right my KGB super-
visor, in the middle professor of political
science, Delhi University. Why do you
think KGB socializes with professors of
politial science? What kind of secrets we
want from professor? We don't want his
secrets. We want the brains of his stu-
dents. The KGB is not after secrets. It is
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Tomas Schuman (right lower corner) at a meeting of the Indo-Soviet
Cultural' organization in New
Tomas Schuman (right) socializing with foreign students at the Patrice
Lumumba 'Friendship university' in Moscow.
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after public opinion. We invite this pro-
fessor to a meeting of the Soviet Cultural
Society. There is the whole meeting. We
trained him in the teaching of Marxism-
Leninism. We sent him to Russia, to study
that. You can see me on the right, in the
lower corner, sitting next to politicians
and members of the Parliament of India.
Why? To create an atmosphere of legi-
timacy and respectability for this pro-
paganda operation. And these dimwits
don't realize what is going on in their own
country. Then the professor will be sent
back to Delhi University, atjd for many
generations he will indoctrinate students.
And they will grow up firmly believing that
socialism is good and that America is bad.
They will close their eyes; they will have
bananas in their ears. Even though they
will see that people die from socialism,
they say, "No, no, this is because of
CIA."
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These are the people who are in charge
of this type of propaganda. About the In-
formation Department of the Soviet
Embassy. Sometimes your journalists ask
-) me questions, ' 'Mr. Schuman, how many
KGB spies do you think there are in Wash-
) ington, D.C.?" I think it's a very dumb
question. All of them are. The solution is
not to find who exactly works for KGB in
which rank. The solution is to kick out all
of them if they misbehave, together with
their beautiful United Nations.
Z7S$# Embassy 'Infar/nzfro'? Dq&tr&neof
This is the group of people who have
nothing to do with espionage. They have
something to do with your minds. This
gentleman is still in the United States.
He's in New York City. Your officer of
United States Army in East Germany was
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shot to death yesterday by Soviet soldiers,
on the pretext that your soldier was spy-
ing. Whether he did or not is a big ques-
tion. Besides, spying is an activity in
which superpowers do engage. This
gentleman is also in New York City, a
correspondent for the Novosti Press Agen-
cy. He IS spying. Nobody shoots him,
which is a great pity. The FBI knows per-
fectly well what he is doing against your
people. Bui you see, there is no law which
would enable FBI to kick him out, together
with hundreds of other Soviet agents in
your country. But there is a law in your
country which forbids your FBI to use your
own American mass media, even to ex-
plain to your people what they want to do
to criminals like these. Please explain to
me who is more dangerous to you — your
FBI or toy KGB ? Are you a proud and free
nation, or are you a bunch of masochists,
afraid of your own police ?
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This is another type of KGB curiosity. 1
am on the left with the beautiful Walter
Mondale smile. On the left Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi, famous Indian guru. Again,
the legitimate question-why KGB social-
izes with the religious cults? Simple. We
are not after Maharishi 9 s secrets. We are
tifter public opinion of United States. If
you remember the history of rock and roll
music you know the name of the Beatles.
They were trained in India in an ashram ih
transcendtal meditation, and they landed
in the United States and they poisoned
millions of minds of your children with the
strange blend of Oriental mysticism and
revolutionary music. 11 Yeah, yeah, yeahV
My KGB supervisors were dying of curios-
ity: how could it possibly happen that four
degenerate monkeys are so rich and fa-
mous in United States?
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This was the subject of our studies. You
can see me infiltrating the ashram there. I
am not implying that Maharishi is a on
KGB payroll I am illustrating to you peo-
ple that the main objective of KGB activity
is your minds.
These two gentlemen: the one on the
right is now, by the way, in the United
States. He is a Soviet official at the United
Nations. On the left, a famous Indian com-
munist. Both of them worked together with
me in a secret department called Research
and Counter -Propaganda. What we did
was neither. We simply compiled informa-
tion on each individual who is in-
strumental in shaping public opinion.
Those who promote Soviet propaganda
will be promoted by us to positions of pow-
er and influence by bribery, corruption
and publicity. Those who resist Soviet pro-
paganda will be listed by us for defama-
tion, blackmail, or at the time of a people 1 s
revolution, for this: execution. This pic-
ture was taken in Cambodia, but the same
execution happens everywhere the*peo-
33
pie' s" government was established. In
Nicaragua, in Zimbabwe, in Angola, in
Ethiopia, in Bangladesh, in Afghanistan,
in Cuba. Everywhere, but you have thick
eyeglasses. You have bananas in your
ears. Your liberals don't explain to you
what is happening. Maybe I will.
Maybe you will remember the name of a
small South Vietnamese city by the name of
Hue. It was occupied by North Vietnamese
communists for about 10 days, but it was
recaptured by the South Vietnamese and
US military. They discovered to their hor-
ror that several thousand pro-American
Vietnamese, your best friends, who talk
too much against communism, were
rounded up, taken out of the city limits,
and executed this way. The CIA could not
figure out how the communists could
possibly round up the
several thousands of the
know their identity, t
tions, and their addresses? I knew how.
34
Long before communists invaded that city,
they had established a network of inform-
ers, Vietnamese citizens — barbers, taxi
drivers, teachers, who acted under control
from the Soviet Embassy in Hanoi, from
the department which is called Research
and Counter-Propaganda, for which I was
in New Delhi, doing exactly the same job.
And it took me one year, because I am a
thick-skulled Russian, to realize that what
I was doing is compiling death lists for
innocent people simply because they talk
too much. Believe me, the same lists exist
in United States. There may be some in-
formers right here in this room, and you
don't need to be paranoid about this but
you must KNOW about it. You have the
right to know what the Soviet Embassy is
doing in your country, and your media
doesn't explain it to you. The dimwits like
Dr. Kissinger are appealing to you that
quiet diplomacy is what you need. You
don't need any quiet diplomacy. You need
LOUD diplomacy, loud and clear against
what the Soviet Embassy is doing in United
States.
I have no chance to explain it to Dr.
Kissinger. Maybe you will have a chance.
This is what we are doing. It took me one
year to realize that what I was doing may
bring irreparable damage to India.
Naturally my decision was to run away
and to scream at the top of my voice —
' 'People, please wake up before this com-
es to your country. ' '
35
My attitude was different. I love India, I
respected their culture. I meditated about
marrying an Indian girl, which I could
not. Naturally, my decision was obvious.
Run away! It was a very painful decision.
First of all because I have to leave behind
this type of life. I was filthy rich by Soviet
standards. Maybe not as filthy as your
Jane Fonda, but definitely rich. My father
was a big boss in the military; I was a
frequent traveller. I could buy anything I
want. Just one telephone call— television
sets, cars, booze, girls, you name it. Try to
understand leaving all this behind to run to
the United States to take the side of
losers— you! And what do I get for this?
For the last 15 years I have been scream-
ing, ' 'Wake up people!' ' What do I get in
return? More than 15 countries since my
defection have been occupied by com-
munists. And yet your media calls me pa-
ranoid, right-wing fanatic, ultra-
conservative, McCarthyist, or whatever.
36
This motning—l have a tape if you want to
listen. This morning people on the radio
called me these names, dimwits living
right here in Atlanta. A "fanatic and idiot"
because I am trying to wake you up.
My decision was extremely painful be-
cause, as I say t you have to be absolutely
crazy to leave behind a luxurious life to
come to your side, trying to save you and
get spit in my face. What do I get for the
last 15 years? 1 was driving a taxi, I was a
security guard, 1 was a farmhand, I was a
translator, I also worked for Canadian
Broadcasting. For the last two years I was
manager of an apartment building in
downtown Los Angeles. Come and visit
me. A building populated by chronically
the unemployed and people who complain
about American capitalism. They sit on
welfare, they don't want to pay rent.
Even to collect rent would require a ma-
chine gun sometimes! Imagine, a Soviet
diplomat, a son of high-ranking military
officer in USSR, changing bulbs and flush-
ing toilets in Los Angeles. I bet you would
not like to take my place. . .
Another reason to think twice before
defection. This secret document, which is
called recommendation letter; every
Soviet agent assigned to a foreign country
has to be co-sponsored by three long-
standing members of the Communist
Party. Their signatures are at the bottom
37
/// defect, all three of them will be fired,
imprisoned, or executed. Two of them are
my friends. I don't want to endanger their
lives. Because I will feel guilty if I do so.
Dr. Kissinger feels OK— he has sentenced
to death half of Asia, He is OK; he is nice,
fat, talking about 1 4 important social-
political structure confrontation." He is
smart! He feels OK; he charged $15,000
for one lecture. Right? He sleeps well. He
has good food. No problem.
38
Then there is another reason: my fami-
ly. Even though it was a marriage of con-
venience, by mistake we made a baby
already. It's a shame to leave a baby and a
wife. Even in the United States where hus-
bands leave their wives without any politi-
cal reason, it's a shame. I was feeling
reluctant to defect, and I could not take my
wife and my child with me. Why? Very
simple. Because the Indian government
which is described in your media as a
"non-aligned democratic government"
betrays defectors to the Soviet KGB. Es-
pecially after this lady defected in India —
she is Stalin's daughter She defected in
1967, but she is back in Russia, by the
way. The Soviet Embassy was so mad at
Indira Gandhi that we forced her to adopt
39
a law which says thafno defector from any
country has a right of political asylum in
any embassy on the territory of India?
Which, as you may understand, is the
highest degree of hypocrisy because only
Soviet defectors need political asylum.
Imagine yourself, an American citizen,
in India and you want to defect to the
USSR. What kind of asylum do you need?
Political? No, Psychiatric! In my case, my
defection would end predictably if 1
walked into United States Embassy. I
would be taken back to the warm embrace
of the KGB, and yet I had to run away.
How? This is how. I
noticed there are many American hippies,
no shoes, long hair, smoking hashish,
gravely annoying Indian police. And I
realized that with my pale European face I
would stand out in the crowd of Asians;
they will catch me in two minutes. But if I
dress as a hippie, and 1 join a bunch of
hippies from the United States, a crazy
40
Russian in a crowd of crazy Americans,
very difficult to identify. This is exactly
what I did. I mixed with them. All papers
carried my picture, and promise of 2,000
rupees for information leading to my arr-
est, as if I was a criminal or a murderer.
An insult to me. And another insult was
2,000 rupees. I was sure I was worth more
than that. And yet they could not find me
because they were looking for this gentle-
man, and at the time of defection I looked
like this. No sensible detective would even
imagine that the normal Russian diplomat
would look like a total idiot and walk away
from the Soviet Embassy. This is what
saved my life and another thing was the
American CIA which smuggled me out
from Bombay airport, first to Greece.
They debriefed me for six months. They
gave me the name Tomas Schuman to pro-
tect my family, friends, and keep me away
from mischief for five years. I worked in
41
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FHE STATESMAN
NO. I>€87
OE1MU TUnDAY, FBBRUABT 10, 1970
18
THE HINDUSTAN TIMES
*»WJ No 0144
New OeMl T Mtt fay fibruorv 10 1970
fl^hfeen foil*
42
Canada, I was employed by Canadian
Broadcasting for six years. I was fired
from there for my anti-communist jokes
because I was stupid. I thought to be an
anti-communist was OK in Canada. No? I
was wrong. Under Pierre Trudeau it was a
crime to be an anti-communist and be em-
ployed by Canadian government.
Let me describe briefly exactly how the
KGB manipulates your media, apart from
these pictures; why they do it, and what to
do about it. Some of what I say is described
in this book, 'KGB Today," written by
John Barron, Of course, I cannot put all the
information that I have in my poor head,
which was pumped into me by the KGB
during six years of training in Moscow. It
took the American CIA six months to de-
brief me. I am unable to put all of that into
one lecture. I have two publications which
I published myself in Los Angeles. "Love
Letter to America 9 ' : this is the way I feel.
And this is the way millions of people feel
in my country; we are not your enemies.
We are your friends. The Junta in the
Kremlin are the enemies of the ^United
States and the enemies of my people. It is
not conflicts between nations; peoples do
not start wars. Governments do. Your
Ronald Reagan was absolutely correct
when he said this.
I described it in this little booklet, which
I peddle for $5; I know it's highway robb-
ery. Consider it support of a needy
family — mine. I must compete with Jane
Fonda. I describe the process in which I
took part, the process of ideological sub-
43
version, which has nothing to do with es-
pionage. It has something to do with your
perception of reality. Why does the KGB
want to mess up your minds? Very simple.
Soviet or international communists realize
perfectly well they cannot defeat United
States economically or militarily. They
cannot force your government to do what
they want it to do because your govern-
ment is being changed every four years.
You mess up Jimmy Carter; then along
comes Ronald Reagan. It's impossible.
But it is possible to confuse the minds of
millions of Americans so that YOU will
force your governments do what the com-
munists want you to do.
It is a longer-term process, but believe
me, it is easier, and it is bloodless. If war
comes, it only comes as a last stage of the
process which I describe in this book. The
principle of subversion has not been in-
vented by the Soviets, or the communists
or Russians. We are too dumb to invent
such principles; we drink too much vodka.
The t principle of subversion is as old as
mankind itself If you don't believe me,
open your Bibles. Read chapters like Ju-
dges, Chronicles or Kings. You will find at
least 12 examples of ' 'subversion, ' ' when
the mightiest rulers were cheating and ly-
ing to their own people. Why? Simple. To
achieve something they want. Earthly in-
terests, above all: power, money, gold,
camels, beautiful women, whatever. When
it doesn't work, then they go to war.
The principle of subversion was formu-
lated by a Chinese philosopher 2,500
44
years ago. Sun Tzu said, ' 'All warfare is
based primarily on deception of your
enemy. To fight on the battlefield to
achieve your goals is the most primitive
and barbaric to achieve your goals. The
highest art of war is not to fight at all, but
to subvert anything of value in your
enemy's country." Which includes relig-
ion, moral principles, traditions, and nat-
ural established relationships between
people, families, groups, classes, races.
Turn the blacks against the whites; turn
the teachers against students; turn Ralph
Nader against the government; labor un-
ions against business; homosexuals
against heterosexuals; and keep on fight-
ing, my dear friends, until you demoralize
and destabilize yourself and then you flop
like a rotten apple and the enemy will take
you over. You will invite the enemy.
This is the essence of subversion, and it
is not new. In this little booklet I explan to
you what exactly is the objective of the
KGB. It is not destruction of the United
States; please dont believe your peace-
niks and freezeniks. Yes, nuclear war-
heads have their dangers, but the objective
is not to destroy United States. Please use
your heads. If they destroy United States
productive capability, where will they get
their grain, credits, technology, compu-
ters, blue jeans. Where will they get the
Cadillacs? From Zimbabwe?
The main objective of KGB is to turn you
from an open society, as I described in this
45
diagram, to a closed one, which is carbon
copy of the Soviet communist, or socialist,
or fascist society. Why? Why would they
bother? Very simple. To merge into one
global system. They make no secrets about
it. You cannot merge our systems today.
They are incompatible. If we merge the
U.S. free market capitalism with the state
monopoly of the Soviet economy, it will be
a great mess. Russians may enjoy it; they
will disappear in your liquor stores and K
Marts. But you may not when you wake up
tomorrow morning and see a tank in your
backyard. Til bet you 11 become emotion-
al. Merging, convergence , or in-
terdependent economy, like some of your
beautiful Brezhinski's are professing, is
IMPOSSIBLE. But it is possible to slowly,
in the long stretch of time, turn your coun-
try into a carbon copy of my society.
How? By infiltrating ideas into your
minds. Not agents into your offices. No.
KGB cannot infiltrate all the newspapers,
all the public schools. Why? Because they
will need an army of agents, thousands of
them, and if they come to United States,
you know what would happen to these
agents? They will defect, because even the
dumbest communist realizes that your sys-
tem is the best. It may not be perfect; by no
definition is it a perfect society. But it
simply is the best. And they will defect. But
it is possible, instead of infiltrating bodies
into your system, to infiltrate ideas into
your minds, and this is how it is being
done.
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/ describe only one idea on this dia-
gram. Not because it is the most danger-
ous, but because it is the most popular and
evident in your ideology today. The idea is
called egalitarianism, and it is not new. It
goes all the way back to the time of French
Revolution. It is simply equality. What's
wrong with equality, you may ask. Every-
thing. Look at yourself. Are you equal in
any imaginable way— spiritually ,
physically, mentally, socially, economi-
cally, racially. Whatever. There is no such
thing as equality. There never was.
All through the history of mankind,
some people were tall, curly and dumb.
Others are short, bald and smart. There
are no two individuals which are identical.
Every one is unique if we are talking about
people. Fish may be equal. Insects, ball
bearings, but not people. If we presume
that we are created by God, I would think it
would be no great deal for Him to make us
all equal. No? We are unequal.
And that's where I come into conflict
with your beautiful intellectuals. They say,
' 'Mr. Schuman, you don't know our Con-
stitution, especially our Declaration of In-
dependence. It says, 'We, the people, take
it as self-evident truth that all men are
created equal. '"See how ignorant I am? I
don't know your Constitution. Believe me,
I know. I read it at the age of 15, and I was
amazed how simple and how beautiful it is.
It is the best constitution in the world. First
of all, there is no period, there is a comma.
Your liberals quote only one line: "We,
the people, take it as self-evident truth that
all men are created equal. ' '
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Equal only in one respect. It has nothing
to do with legislative, social, economic or
any other type of equality. It has some-
thing to do with equal opportunities for
unequal people to come to this land, or are
brought here by force sometimes, to enjoy
roughly equal opportunites. And above
all, you the people are equal in one impor-
tant respect— in respect of the undetach-
able right to stay alive, be free and pursue
happiness. And these basic rights are
given to you people, the way I understand
it, by God.
So what? they say. Very much so. Be-
cause you cannot re-elect God. You can-
not take Him down to face cameras and to
lie to you about the quality of the distribu-
tion of wealth, social programming, social
welfare, all these beautiful concepts. Why
did leaders throughout the history of man-
kind wanted people to believe that they are
equal? We know we are not. We know we
don't have to be. Why then? Simple. And
communists take advantage of this mis-
conception. Because it is impossible to
control and exploit people as long as they
stay unequal.
Then why have poor people always
wanted to be equal? Simple. You name me
one American who wanted to be equal with
someone who has one popsicle less. I think
you want always to be equal with someone
who has one car more, one bedroom more,
20 an hour more. And if you don't get
this 20$ an hour more, you become very
unhappy.
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What is the motivation of equality in the
minds of poor people then? Greed. This is
what happens. And this is the core of
ideological manipulation of the masses.
The concept of equality, forcefully in-
troducing such ideology creates false ex-
pectations, which clash with reality and
produce unhappiness, frustration.
Discontented people produce less. Low-
er productivity creates economic instabil-
ity and social unrest. This leads to radical-
ism because people become impatient.
That leads to power struggles. Power
struggles lead to replacement of social,
political structure. That replacement is the
fastest way to internal upheaval, civil war,
or invasion. The result for the last observ-
able 35 years is always the same — closed
society. Just the opposite of what we
started with. Everything is nationalized,
from banks to washrooms. Human beings
belong to the state. My right to live and
pursue happiness in the USSR is not given
by God because God is removed from the
school, right? My right to live in Russia is
given by the state. The State giveth, and
the State taketh awway.
Sixty-six million of my people lost the
right to live. In your country, even the
worst criminal who raped five neighbors
and killed his babushka, he is still taken to
court, and he is politely called a suspect.
j You see the difference ? This is the core of
ideological subversion. You go all the way
from open to closed society, and later on to
a merging. Four stages of subversion: De-
moralization. 20 years, de stabilization; 5
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THE MOVEMENT FROM AN
OPEN SOCIETY TO A CLOSED
OPEN SOCIETY
I
EGALITARIANISM
I
EXPECTATIONS UP
I
ASPIRATIONS VS. REALITY
DISCONTENT
PRODUCTIVITY DOWN
I
INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT =
RECESSION
SOCIAL UNREST
I
INSTABILITY
I
RADICALISM
I
POWER STRUGGLE
I
REPLACEMENT
CIVIL WAR, REVOLUTION, AND INVASION
CLOSED SOCIETY
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years, crisis; one year, "normalization"
forever. On the stage of demoralization,
the media plays the most important role.
Why? Because it conveys ideas into your
mind. If your media presents the picture of
socialism this way, this image of your
country, which you see every day on
television — crime, child abuse, police
brutality, racial discrimination, acid rain,
explosion — This image is not to the ad-
vantage of the United States. A child can
grow up in America believing that he lives
in the worst possible country on earth,
whereby the reality is just the opposite:
you live in the best possible country.
If you think that I am crazy, please ask
Mexicans. Have you ever heard of any
smart Mexican sneaking across the border
into Cuba, Nicaragua, or the USSR? Boat
people never swim to Red China for equal-
ity and justice. Black African brothers are
not running from South Africa. They run
from Zimbabwe, Angola and Mozambique
TO South Africa. If you don't believe me,
go there and stay for one hour at the bord-
er check.
Your media lies to you. Why? Media is a
part of the process of demoralization.
They are monopolized today. They are
controlled by the same group of people,
unelected, super-rich and super-powerful
people who trade with murders of my na-
tion in the Kremlin. Interesting isn't it?
With one hand these people send your boys
to Vietnam for 12 years. With the other
hand they send billions of dollars of credit
to the Soviet government to build weapons
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| to kill your boys in Vietnam. Imagine,
when people make a mistake once and
repeat this mistake — repeats the same mis-
take three times, we call him a dangerous
idiot. What would you call people in your
establishment who repeat the same mis-
take, aiding your enemy and the enemy of
my people in the Kremlin, over and over
again for 68 years? Traitors. And they
control your media. I described it here in
this booklet 'World Thought Police', ex-
actly what your media did for us, for the
KGB. One service after another, how f o
recognize it in your media, and what to do
about it.
And this is the last thing I want to men-
tion before you fall asleep. What to do
about it. I dont want you to go home
depressed. I want you to go home happy.
You deserve to be happy. You look like
normal people. The process of de-
moralization, which takes 20 years, has
taken place only in part. Andropov, a year
ago when he was still half alive, talking to
the Kremlin assembly, said, "We (mean-
ing communists) are entering the final
stage of the battle for minds and hearts of
the people." He was not talking about
invasion of El Salvador. No, he was talk-
ing about this process I just described. You
have five more years, according to An-
dropov. Presuming that you are de-
moralized, which I dont believe because
you are still alive, and Andropov is dead.
So is Chernenko.
What to do about this crazy situation.
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Believe me, the solution is ridiculously
simple. You do not need any more MX—
you may have them, just in case, but you
may not need them if you take my solution.
If you prefer Dr. Kissinger's solution, go
ahead. Suit yourself. You 9 ve been follow-
ing the advice of people like Kissinger,
Schlessinger, Brezinski, Trilateral Com-
mission, Council on Foreign Relations,
for the last observable history. Look where
you are now. You lost all your friends in
Asia, Africa, Latin America, and you are
on your way to losing El Salvador, South
Africa, Philippines, Mexico, Canada,
and on and on.
Just for the sake of experiment, listen to
Schuman. It costs you nothing. My solu-
tion is simple. You don't want to be de-
moralized. Stay moral. See how simple?
Stay moral. What does this imply? Exactly
what CAUSA is telling you. Exactly what
many millions of sensible Americans who
belong to a multiplicity of conservative
and religious groups are telling you on TV
and radio. These stations grow like mush-
rooms. Stay moral. Bring prayer back to
school. No matter what prayer, as long as
your children will remember that their
grand-grand-grandparents were not
monkeys.
And so that they will grow up realizing
that their right to live, to be free and pur-
sue happiness, is not given by the state or
federal government. It is given by God.
You have to implant in the minds of your
children, before it is too late, that yours is
the best system. No, it is not perfect. No, it
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is not smooth. It is rough and there are
pains and ups and downs, but believe me,
your problems are nothing compared to
the problems of Zimbabwe, and Angola,
or people living now in Vietnam, Cambo-
dia and Laos. That's all you have to do.
Suppose you believe Andropov and are
demoralized. Suppose we are really enter-
ing the final stage of your life, destabiliza-
tion, five more years. Even then there is a
solution. And again, this solution has
nothing to do with more nuclear war-
heads. This solution is so primitive and so
simple that nobody wants to listen to me, in
the establishment. It is very simple, peace-
ful, nonviolent and very beneficial: Stop
aiding your enemy.
Right now, as your Congress is thinking
how to cut the budget, how to reduce the
deficit, they are thinking that your Penta-
gon doesnt deserve $500 toilet seats. That
Salvadorans do not deserve $30 million to
protect it against communism. At the very
same time, your Congress votes for bil-
lions of dollars of credits to the enemy of
my people in the Kremlin. These billions of
dollars are not reaching poor people in my
country or Asia or Africa or Latin Amer-
ica. All of them are directed to the Soviet
military-industrial complex, to world ter-
rorist networks, to de stabilization process
in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Stop
this before it is too late.
Force your Congress to stop aiding my
enemy and your enemy and there will be no
nuclear war. You will not need more MX
missiles. That's all. You will not need
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more boys to be killed in Lebanon, Viet-
nam, or in Central America. Why? Be-
cause my people dont want to fight war.
There will be no international terrorist
network, because all of them are on the
Soviet payroll. If you think I am crazy, give
me one example when terrorists are blow-
ing up Soviet embassies, hijacking Soviet
airplanes, abducting a Soviet diplomat.
All you hve to do is to stop aiding your
enemy. You will immediately save yourself
billions of dollars. The Soviet system
already owes you $100 billion. Half of
your deficit. Could you imagine? And they
are thinking in Congress how to cut social
welfare, or a $200 hammer for Pentagon.
Stop aiding your enemy! That's all.
And if we are talking specifically about
media like that, already I gave you the
solution. Start your own media. If you
read such monsters as The New York
Times, or The Washington Post, or The
Los Angeles Times^ if you watch the gar-
bage coming through the three major TV
networks, just for curiosity's sake, please
subscribe to conservative literature. If you
watch The Phil Donahue Show, just for
curiosity watch Pat Robertson or Jimmy
Swaggart, or Jerry Falwell; there are many
others. If you read The Los Angeles Times,
read The Washington Times for a change.
You will see the difference. That's all I
have to say to you. Please do it fast. Be-
cause if you pooh-pooh your system, you
will follow the destiny of the Vietnamese,
Cambodians, Nicaraguans, Zimbabweans
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and Ethiopians. And yours will be the last
country .
Why am I shouting? Why am I so emo-
tional? I am sick and tired of defecting.!
And believe me, if you destroy your sys-
tem, you will have no place to defect to.
Because your country is the last hope for
mankind's survival, freedom and justice.
This is the way millions of people feel
in my country; we are not your enemies.
We are your friends. The Junta in the
Kremlin are the enemies of the United
States and the enemies of my people. It is
not conflicts between nations; peoples do
not start wars. Governments do. Your
Ronald Reagan was absolutely correct
when he said this.
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which means "News" in Russian,
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Mr. Schuman was born under the
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1939, the son of a senior officer in the
Red Army. Consequently, he went to
good schools. At the age of 17 he
entered the Institute of Oriental Lang-
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After graduating, he worked for No-
vosti, then spent two years in India
as an interpreter and public relations
officer with Soviet Refineries Const-
ructions. He returned to Moscow in
1965 to work for Novosti, serving as
Economic Editor for the Hindi, Urdu
and English Editions of Sovietland
Magazine. In 1969 he went back to
India and continued propaganda efforts
for Novosti in New Delhi, working out
of the Soviet Embassy in a department
called Research and Counter-Propagan-
da. Due to his growing disgust, he be-
gan to plan defection.
In February of 1970 he disguised
himself as a hippie complete with beads
and wig and joined a tour group to
escape to Athens. He contacted the
United States Embassy and, after a
long debriefing by U.S. Intelligence,
was granted asylum and went to Cana-
da.
In Canada, he studied political science
at the University of Toronto for two
years, taught Russian language and
literature and in 1972 was hired by the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's
International Service as a Producer/
Announcer, broadcasting to the Soviet
Union. The K.G.B. forced him out of
the job in 1976, so he began free-lance
journalism and worked on a variety of
projects.
Today he is a political analyst for
PANORAMA weekly in Los Angeles.
He is married, and has two children.
He is the author of two yet unpub-
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